Chapter 8. Software stack 217 Hardware control point discovery by using Service Location Protocol (SLP):BladeCenter Advanced Management Module (AMM), IBM Power Systems™HMC, and Flexible Service Processor (FSP).Supported hardwareThe following hardware is supported and tested by xCAT: IBM BladeCenter with AMM IBM System x IBM Power Systems (including the HMC) IBM iDataPlex IBM Flex System IBM NeXtscale System Machines that are based on the Intelligent Platform Management Interface(IPMI)Because only IBM hardware is available for testing, this is the only hardwaresupported. However, other vendors’ hardware can be managed with xCAT. Formore information and the latest list of supported hardware, see this website:http://xcat.sourceforge.net/8.2 IBM Platform Cluster ManagerThe IBM Platform Cluster Manager family provides full cluster lifecyclemanagement. Cluster Manager family include the following main products: The IBM Cluster Manager Standard Edition (SE) to manage a single clusterand integrate with IBM Platform HPC offering (see 8.5, “IBM Platform HPC”on page 229). The IBM Cluster Manager Advanced Edition (AE), which includes advancedcluster management capabilities, such as, the ability to manage multipleclusters, including HPC and analytics.Table 8-1 on page 218 lists the features that each product supports.Note: Although xCAT is an Open Source Initiative that is provided under theEclipse license and freely available, official IBM support can be contacted.
